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This book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to examine what it means to be vulnerable, to care and be cared for, within conditions of inequality, violence and crisis across the globe.

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Bodies, Resistance, Despair 1: JUDITH BUTLER: Bodies that Still Matter 2: ROSALBA ICAZA: Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics 3: C. JASON THROOP: Meteorological Moods and Atmospheric Attunements Response: The Terror of InvulnerabilityRAHUL RAO: Ambiguity, Affectivity, Violence 4: ERINN GILSON: The Problems and Potentials of Vulnerability 5: THOMAS GREGORY: Vulnerable Civilians: Coalition Checkpoints and the Perception of Hostile Intent 6: OMAR DEWACHI: Revealed in the Wound: Medical Care and the Ecologies of War in Post-Occupation Iraq Response: On the Condition of Being OpenVÉRONIQUE PIN-FAT: Narrative, Relationality, Disclosure 7: JACKIE LEACH SCULLY: The politics of care: from biomedical transformation to narrative vulnerability 8: JASON DANELY: "It rips you to bits!": Woundedness and Compassion in Carers' Narratives 9: ANN CAHILL: Disclosing an Experience of Sexual Assault: Ethics and the Role of the Confidant Response: Tenuous MooringsYASMIN GUNARATNAM: Dependence, Distribution, Waiting 10: LOTTE MEINERT: Vulnerability as Radically Social: Cash and Care for the Elderly in Uganda 11: LISA BARAITSER AND WILLIAM BROOK: Watchful Waiting: Temporalities of Crisis and Care in the UK: National Health Service Response: The Hopeless Hopeful Time of CaringTIFFANY PAGE: Index

Vulnerability and the Politics of Care Transdisciplinary Dialogues Proceedings of the British Academy

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      Publisher Oxford University Press, USA
      Published 1/28/2021 12:00:00 AM
      ISBN-13 9780197266830
      978-0197266830
      ISBN-10 0197266835
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      Anthropology Social and ethical issues Human biology

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      This book brings together scholars from across the social sciences and humanities to examine what it means to be vulnerable, to care and be cared for, within conditions of inequality, violence and crisis across the globe.

      Table of Contents
      Bodies, Resistance, Despair 1: JUDITH BUTLER: Bodies that Still Matter 2: ROSALBA ICAZA: Decolonial Feminism and Global Politics 3: C. JASON THROOP: Meteorological Moods and Atmospheric Attunements Response: The Terror of InvulnerabilityRAHUL RAO: Ambiguity, Affectivity, Violence 4: ERINN GILSON: The Problems and Potentials of Vulnerability 5: THOMAS GREGORY: Vulnerable Civilians: Coalition Checkpoints and the Perception of Hostile Intent 6: OMAR DEWACHI: Revealed in the Wound: Medical Care and the Ecologies of War in Post-Occupation Iraq Response: On the Condition of Being OpenVÉRONIQUE PIN-FAT: Narrative, Relationality, Disclosure 7: JACKIE LEACH SCULLY: The politics of care: from biomedical transformation to narrative vulnerability 8: JASON DANELY: "It rips you to bits!": Woundedness and Compassion in Carers' Narratives 9: ANN CAHILL: Disclosing an Experience of Sexual Assault: Ethics and the Role of the Confidant Response: Tenuous MooringsYASMIN GUNARATNAM: Dependence, Distribution, Waiting 10: LOTTE MEINERT: Vulnerability as Radically Social: Cash and Care for the Elderly in Uganda 11: LISA BARAITSER AND WILLIAM BROOK: Watchful Waiting: Temporalities of Crisis and Care in the UK: National Health Service Response: The Hopeless Hopeful Time of CaringTIFFANY PAGE: Index

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